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Originally Posted by New Era
The real annoying thing about this Ryan discussion is people refusing to acknowledge that, like Gulutzan with Brouwer, Peters played favorites with Ryan and gave him opportunity ahead of others. Peters played a 4th liner ahead of better players on the team, because Peters liked Ryan. Hurricane fans will tell you it was not earned ice time, it was given ice time, just like Brouwer got with Gulutzan. For all the pissing and moaning that went on here about the Brouwerplay, or how much ice time Brouwer got, or even how undeserving Ferland was to play with Gaudreau and Monahan, there are some here asking for the signing of a player who got similar treatment from our new coach. I can’t believe anyone would support bringing in a player like Ryan, who was obviously the coach’s favorite.
Personally, I hate it when coaches come in and bring their players from other teams with them. Especially garbage role players. We saw how successful Gulutzan was with that, and what a distraction is was. We have better talent in our own system. Stop bringing in crap players from other failing teams and think that will make our team better.
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You keep saying that but are really just making stuff up. Ryan ranked 7th on the team in TOI per game - or pretty much 3rd line minutes. Here are the players who were on the roster for 30+ games that played less per game on the Canes than Ryan did:
- Brock McGinn - LW (30 pts)
- Lee Stempniak - RW(9 pts)
- Marcus Kruger - C (6 pts)
- Joakim Nordstrom - LW (7 pts)
- Josh Jooris - RW (6 pts)
- Phil Di Giuseppe - LW (13 pts)
Please tell me which players that were on the 3rd and 4th line in Carolina were being held back because of Peters love for Derek Ryan. The only young player that even has an argument is Phil Di Giuseppe but he's a LW who was competing directly with Brock McGinn.
So the only guys that Ryan held back would be C/RWs ... namely Stempniak, Kruger, & Jooris.